The phrase "altered heart" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to medical conditions, emotional states, or metaphorical expressions about change.
Example: "After the surgery, the doctors explained that I would have to adjust to my altered heart and its new functioning."
Alternatives: "changed heart" or "modified heart".
Preliminary results indicated ZnONPs affected organ systems may show inflammation, altered heart rate and functions, and oxidative stress [19, 20].
Typically, the headache attributed to autonomic dysreflexia is a sudden-onset, severe headache accompanied by several signs and symptoms including increased blood pressure, altered heart rate, and diaphoresis cranial to the level of spinal cord injury, which is triggered by different noxious and non-noxious stimuli [10].
When designing the present study we reasoned that in contrast to prevention [16], regression of already altered heart morphology might require a higher dose of E, e.g. 48 mg/kg body weight [22] similar to the high doses necessary to cause regression of glomerular sclerosis [23].
Regarding complications, 48.1% of TAVI patients showed altered heart rhythm and 33% required a permanent pacemaker.
In the metabolically altered heart, however, myocardial substrate metabolism is shifted to increased fatty acid and decreased glucose metabolism.
Associations have also been found between carbon black exposure and altered heart rate variability (Tankersley et al. 2004).
Taken together, the above-discussed pharmacological interventions suggest that improving insulin sensitivity, and thereby improving myocardial flexibility, may be the most beneficial option in metabolically altered hearts in order to restore cardioprotective mechanisms.
Alternatively, changes in the mechanical forces in these altered hearts might result in a different microenvironment for the cardiomyocytes inducing a re-differentiation or de-differentiation process in these cells (Porter and Turner, 2009; Schenke-Layland et al., 2008).
Housing system did not alter heart rate.
The dose did alter heart rate by 13%, which suggests it was biologically active.
Administration of fenoldopam, 0.1 μg/kg/min, did not alter heart rate or blood pressure.
